Water into wine? Just a plumbing error!
Water into wine - a miracle? Nope, a plumping mishap by bungling Italian authorities.
The Marino Grape Festival normally features a fountain in the square where free wine flows. But at this year's festival sparkling chilled white wine started flowing through the reisdent's own taps.
The free wine was hailed as a "Miracolo" by people in the town south of Rome.
They said housewives doing the washing up or running a bath suddenly noticed a strange smell of alcohol.
Adriano Palozzi, the embarrassed mayor of Marino, said that water engineers had inadvertently misdirected the flow of wine into the domestic supply.
The mistake was quickly spotted and reversed, but not before many quick-thinking residents had filled buckets, jugs, and any containers that came to hand.
The Marino Grape Festival normally features a fountain in the square where free wine flows. But at this year's festival sparkling chilled white wine started flowing through the reisdent's own taps.
The free wine was hailed as a "Miracolo" by people in the town south of Rome.
They said housewives doing the washing up or running a bath suddenly noticed a strange smell of alcohol.
Adriano Palozzi, the embarrassed mayor of Marino, said that water engineers had inadvertently misdirected the flow of wine into the domestic supply.
The mistake was quickly spotted and reversed, but not before many quick-thinking residents had filled buckets, jugs, and any containers that came to hand.
